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About the Agrarian Studio

Agrarian Studio is an interdisciplinary lab in critical agrarian studies at Cornell University. Our research specializes in ethnographic approaches to questions of labor, land and the environment in the global South. 

Based out of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the studio brings together graduate students from across the social sciences to host weekly works-in-progress workshops culminating in an annual graduate conference.

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Academic Director

Studio Members

Pinaki Chandra

  • PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology

Nataya Friedan

  • Postdoctoral Associate, College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Gokulnath Govindan

  • PhD Candidate, Global Labor and Work

Parijat Jha

  • PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology

Ashwin Kumar

  • PhD Candidate, Global Labor and Work

Suraj Kushwaha

  • PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology

Jessie Whittaker Mayall

  • PhD Candidate, Development Studies

Tamar Law

  • PhD Candidate, Development Studies

Steven McCutcheon Rubio

  • PhD Candidate, Development Studies

Yui Sasajima

  • PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Finn West

  • PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Roderick Wijunamai

  • PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology

Past Studio Members

Hadia Akhtar Khan

  • Post-doctoral Associate, ILR School, Cornell University

Paul Kohlbry

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Devika Shekhawat

  • Feminist activist, labour sociologist and medical anthropologist